Improved spring-bed bottom



A. H.-GBILEY.

SPRING BED BOTTOM No. 99.058. Patented Jan 25; 1870.

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TO J. B. GARDINER,- OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 99,058, dated Jan-awry 25,1370.

IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, ARGHIBALD H. CEILEY, of Springfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring- Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in attaching together the springs used in a spring-bed, in such a manner that the weight of a person lying on the same shall not hear entirely on two of the springs, but shall be distribnted, more or less affecting the whole.

I will now describe the construction of a spring-bed, withmy improvement, referring to the accompanying drawing.

A, B, G, and D, are the springs, which are formed so that the rod E may pass through the loops or rings a b c d. Thisrod E is made sufliciently still, so that when a pressure is bronghton any part of it, it is afiected more or less throughout its entire length, and so bears down the springs.

To this'rod may be attached a rope sacking or slats,

- and in the latter case the slats may be attached by leather strips, passing over the rod E, and fastened to the slats, as shown in the drawing, so that by removing this rod, the bed may be'taken apart and packed for transmission. By thisiniprovement, it will be seen that "a weight bearing on any part of the bed above the sackingrope or slats, more or less affects all the springs, instead of, as beds are ordinarily arranged, aflecting only two, and so I obtain a greater elasticity, andarn able to use lighter springs.

I also fasten the springs to the cross-bar, by coiling the same over the rod G. and inserting the ends into the cross-bar H, thus holding them securely in place, and preventing them from twisting out of the crossbar.

I claim the combination of the connecting-rods E and G with the springs A B G 1), arranged as described, and fastened to the cross-bar H, in the manner specified.

AROHIBALD H. CEILEY.

Witnesses:

J. B, GARDINER, E. R. Enron. 

